The PEN Ten with Sorayya Khan
I’ve always believed that writing is a political act, a way to explore injustice, a place to contemplate complicity, forgiveness, and the possibility of a better world. More
DARE: Angry Viewers Are In No Mood To Laugh At Sean Spicer’s Emmy Jokes
Spicer’s tenure serving in the Trump administration was marked by frequent controversies. Members of the viewing public were quick to call out the problem with allowing Spicer himself to… More
PEN America joins PEN Myanmar in calling for release of Myanmar photojournalists detained in Bangladesh
Police in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, arrested two Myanmar photojournalists, Min Zeyar Oo and Hkun Lat, on assignment in Cox's Bazar for the German magazine GEO to report on the… More
DARE: Ben Shapiro spoke at Berkeley as protesters gathered outside
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro speaks at UC Berkeley as the administrators, organizers of the event and accompanying protests, and police combine to allow speech and counter-speech to be safely… More
PEN Uyghur Center: Powerful Literature in a Fleeting Language
As a Uyghur writer, I cannot truly understand or write any novel, story, or poem in Chinese. It isn’t possible because Chinese is not my language… More
DARE: Press Secretary suggests punishments for Trump critics
White House spokeswoman pronounces ESPN anchor Jemele Hill's tweet calling President Trump a white supremacist a "fireable offense." More
Any Place I’d Wanted to Be
In the reverie, it’s a socked in playground / in Douglas, Alaska—near the miner’s / abandoned wood, a pit where went a Chevrolet / in the early 1970s. A… More
A Slim Anthology that Encompasses Worlds: PEN America Debut Short Stories 2017
Hours later and several stories in, it became a process of cheating myself: “The next story is only six pages.” “It’s only 2am.” “The next one will only take…” More
DARE: Conservatives, liberals unite against Silicon Valley
With Democrats talking tough about applying antitrust scrutiny to “Big Tech” and Republicans condemning internet firms for their snap judgments about who gets to say what online, tech is… More
DARE: Trump admin backs baker in discrimination case
Trump Administration Justice Department backs baker in Supreme Court case testing whether religious freedom can justify refusal to comply with state laws barring discrimination against LGBT individuals. More
